NEWS

   1 (-*- text -*-)
   2 User Visible Changes In Bobot++
   3
   4 IMPORTANT NOTES:
   5   As of version 1.98 unknown_lamer is the new maintainer.  Also as of
   6   version 1.98, you must have Guile 1.5.6+ or 1.6.x in order to
   7   compile scripting support.
   8
   9 =====================================================================
  10 ====== The News =====================================================
  11 =====================================================================
  12
  13 Version 2.1.9:
  14
  15 Version 2.1.8:
  16 - Scripting
  17   + Hooks
  18     * Added bot:protection/[none|ban|kick|deop] and bot:aop/[yes|no]
  19       constants to the Scheme scripting interface
  20     * hooks/timer argument is now zero padded instead of space padded
  21       (e.g. "11:01" instead of "11: 1")
  22     * hooks/disconnect is now called when the bot is disconnected from the
  23       server unintentionally (network connection timeout, server died,
  24       etc.)
  25     * hooks/action is now passed the user's nick instead of the full
  26       address like all other hooks
  27   + Message Sending
  28     * Implemented bot:notice
  29     * bot:msg and bot:say may both send to channels and users (instead
  30       of bot:msg for users and bot:say for channels)
  31     * Renamed bot:send-CTCP to bot:send-ctcp
  32     * Added bot:send-ctcp-reply to send a ctcp-reply
  33   + Misc
  34     * Added (bobotpp bot) module that modules may use to gain access
  35       to the bobot++ functions
  36   + Debugging
  37     * The debugging evaluator is now enabled when --debug is passed to
  38       the bot
  39     * New command line option: --debug-scripts enabled the debugging
  40       evaluator while running everything else normally
  41     * Merged error handling patch from Dale Smith. This adds detailed
  42       errors and backtraces when --debug/--debug-scripts is passed to
  43       Bobot++.
  44 - Documentation
  45   + Merged documentation patch from Dale Smith (thanks)
  46 - Misc
  47   + NOTICEs and PRIVMSGs are now sent correctly if they contain an
  48     embedded newline
  49   + Max nick length is now configurable via 'maxnicklength' option in
  50     bot.conf (defaults to 9)
  51 - The bot now builds with --disable-scripting again (this is my fault,
  52   I haven't built without it in a long time)
  53
  54
  55 Version 2.1.7:
  56 - Fixed a number of small bugs and corner cases
  57 - Should compile without warnings (GCC 3.4)
  58
  59 Version 2.1.6:
  60 - The String class implementation has been redone and replaced by one
  61   based on std::string (eventually String will be gone entirely, but
  62   it a lot of work)
  63 - Patches from Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> were applied which fix a
  64   few major bugs in the StringTokenizer (thanks)
  65
  66 Version 2.1.5: Cleanups
  67 - A DCC CHAT with the bot may now only be initiated if the user is a
  68   Friend of the bot
  69 - Implemented bot:ctcp-quote
  70 - The Bot Configuration section of the manual has been completed.
  71 - Fixed a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in Utils::strToTime
  72   (if there were more than 512 digits in part of the string form of
  73   the time the buffer would overflow)
  74 - Misc. Bugfixes
  75
  76 Version 2.1.4: DCC Support Enhancements
  77 - Internal Change: DCCConnection is now an abstract class
  78 - Internal Change: DCCChatConnection provides the functionality of
  79   the old DCCConnection so that DCC FILE support can be added
  80 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:sent-to-me? message), checks to see if a
  81   message was addressed to the bot. This is better than using
  82   bot:match-to-me because the hook will continue to function if the
  83   bot's nick changes. The only downside to using it is that there may
  84   be an increased overhead of calling more hooks than could be called,
  85   but that shouldn't be much of a problem.
  86 - New Scheme Procedure: (bot:change-command-level command level),
  87   changes the level a user command to allow a user of `level' level or
  88   above to run it.
  89
  90 Version 2.1.3: Something
  91 - The flood rate can now be set using !setfloodrate INTEGER. The
  92 default is two messages per second before the bot will ignore
  93 you. (thanks to Björn Gustavsson for requesting this)
  94 - The flood rate may also be set from Scheme using (bot:setfloodrate
  95 integer)
  96 - A very large crash bug has been fixed. Previously, if an undefined
  97 command was called, any attempts to call a subsequent command would
  98 cause the bot to crash. Now the bot doesn't crash.
  99
 100 Version 2.1.2: Llama
 101
 102 - match-to-me and match-not-channel are now bot:match-to-me and
 103   bot:match-not-channel. Just use perl -pi -e
 104   "s/match-to-me/bot:match-to-me" SCRIPTS (change to match-not-channel
 105   for match-not-channel).
 106 - Each script is now loaded into its own module so namespace clashes
 107   should no longer occur
 108 - New procedure: (bot:load-module INTERFACE-SPEC) will load a "bot
 109   module" with the specified INTERFACE-SPEC (e.g. (foo bar)). A bot
 110   module is the same as a system module except that you don't use
 111   define-module to define it. The %bot:loadpath is searched for
 112   INTERFACE-SPEC (when converted to a string) with an extension in
 113   %bot:load-extensions. E.g. (foo bar) becomes "foo/bar".
 114 - New procedure: (bot:use-module INTERFACE-SPEC) is the same as
 115   bot:load-module except it will make the exported bindings from
 116   INTERFACE-SPEC available in the current-module.
 117 - Updated example bot and new example scripts included with the bot.
 118
 119 Version 2.1.1: foom
 120
 121 - Host masks are now case insensitive when matched. At least one other
 122   person thought this was a good idea since IRC is case preserving but
 123   not case sensitive.
 124 - You can now "name" a hook using an extra arg to bot:addhook. This
 125   name can be used to have multiple hooks of the same type with the
 126   same regexp. The default name is "DEFAULT" so don't use that as the
 127   name for your hooks.
 128 - Logging now works again (oops, I didn't realize I broke it until I
 129   started to work on DCC).
 130 - DCC CHAT now "works." You can connect to the bot and talk to to it
 131   and use Scheme hooks to talk to the user.
 132 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and hooks/dcc/chat-message. These
 133   are called when a new DCC Chat begin and when the user sends a
 134   message.
 135 - New Function: bot:dcc-chat-send TO MESSAGE, sends a MESSAGE to the
 136   person at address TO
 137 - New hooks: hooks/send/... where ... is one of action, ctcp, public,
 138   or message. These are triggered when the bot does an
 139   ACTION, sends a CTCP (_not_ a ctcp-reply), sends a PRIVMSG to a
 140   channel, or sends a PRIVMSG to another user, respectively. There
 141   will be more send hooks added later.
 142 - New hooks: hooks/dcc/chat-begin and
 143   hooks/dcc/chat-message. chat-begin is called when the chat starts
 144   and has one argument: the address (in user!nick@host
 145   format). chat-message has two arguments: from (user!nick@host) and
 146   message, which is the raw message (since there is no real protocol
 147   for DCC). chat-start hooks are matched against the address and
 148   chat-message hooks are matched against the text "ADDRESS MESSAGE"
 149   where ADDRESS is the sender's address and MESSAGE is the message.
 150
 151 Version 2.1.0: Zug Zug
 152 - Hooks can now be fallthrough or non fallthrough. You can set a hooks
 153   priority and whether or not it falls through (i.e. continues hook
 154   matching after it has been executed) using two optional args to
 155   (bot-addhook). The new args are pri (integer priority) and fallthru
 156   (#t or #f) and are at the end. Higher priority hooks are executed
 157   before lower priority hooks, and fallthrough hooks are executed
 158   before non-fallthrough hooks.
 159 - The default config is read from ~/.bobotpp/config/default/ or
 160   /etc/bobotpp/default/ if the user config is not found. Put your
 161   default config in either dir. You may also specify a specific config
 162   under these dirs using the --config or -c arg to bobotpp (see
 163   bobotpp --help for the full list of commands you may use and how to
 164   use them).
 165 - Scripts are now stored in ~/.bobotpp/scripts/ or
 166   PREFIX/share/bobotpp/scripts/ (where PREFIX is /usr/local unless you
 167   changed it with the --prefix arg to configure). The new function
 168   bot-load will take a filename and load it from these dirs, returning
 169   #t if the file was loaded and #f if it wasn't. You can modify the
 170   search list by appending to %bot-loadpath.
 171 - bobot-utils.scm is now autoloaded, so you don't need to
 172   load it if you want to use its functions.
 173 - Logs are now in ~/.bobotpp/logs/
 174 - bot-* procedures in Scheme are now bot:*. The old bot-* functions
 175   are defined as aliases in bobot-utils.scm
 176 - You can now use lambda's for new commands (oops, I wasn't protecting
 177   the objects from garbage collection)
 178
 179
 180 Version 2.0: Stable release / CVS merges
 181 - Merged stuff from Etienne Bernard's dev tree that he was working on
 182   before I took over (not much)
 183 - bot-adduser and bot-addshit now work from Scheme
 184
 185 Version 1.99: Configure joy
 186 - You can now disable scripting using --disable-scripting or
 187   --enable-scripting=no
 188 - Crypt can also be disabled with --disable-crypt or --enable-crypt=no
 189 - Old hooks behavior has been restored (new hooks are added to the end
 190   of the hooks list and processing does not stop at the first matched
 191   hook). The hook behavior will change radically in 2.1.
 192
 193 Version 1.98: Unknown_lamer made a large number of changes
 194 - Code is now ISO C++ and compiles with GCC 3.1
 195 - Converted makefile system to use automake
 196 - configure.ac now requires autoconf 2.50 (this is only a problem if
 197   you modify it, but I should be the only one doing that)
 198 - Transition to new Guile 1.6 API has begun
 199 - Scripting must always be enabled for now (known "bug")
 200 - first hook of a given type to match is the only hook executed, all
 201   others are ignored. Note that the last hook to be registered is the
 202   first in the list!
 203
 204
 205 Version 1.97: lots of changes, especially guile's scripting support, which
 206               is not yet documented. See in the scripts/ directory for
 207               examples, and in Interp.C (the Startup() function) for the
 208               list of all available commands.
 209
 210 Version 1.30: Syntax change for "channel =" in bot.conf. See examples/bot.conf.
 211               Rewrite of ident/password system. Should be more secure and
 212               flexible.